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Three backups

… or my personal and own dragon.
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When you #leap and move into the unknown, it is good to have a backup. To have at least one is already quite good.

For this I have my three backups.

Perhaps that is why I feel always so save. Not always. But almost always.

Don’t be afraid of getting under. There is always a ground under you.
Don’t be afraid of getting lost, there are always friends who accompany you on your way. What you need is trust – trust in yourself and your dream.
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The deep water surrounds you with happy blue. The fresh and wet. In between you are light and weightless. * *
Diving into the unknown feels like flying. * *
I love that. It feels exciting, adventurous.
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I also know that there are some friends waiting for me. Some mermaids and dolphins will come along my way. I am never alone in the blue.
From here the shore seems so easy to reach. I am prepared to move on. *
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But mermaids are whispering into my ears.

They want me to stay.
But I am not that convinced.

Why don’t I trust them? They are my friends. And really, I love being around with them. But I am also curious and adventurous. When I look in the mermaids faces I see fear. Fear from the unknown. You have to have trust, to start something new.

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The coastline is too far away to see anything. I have to go there, to know it. Try it out.
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The grass is always greener there, for sure. Why not? * *
The inbetween seems so much saver. Save to NOT decide. NOT saying YES or NO.
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For this, purpose I need one of the backups I have spoken of right in the beginning, which is my notebook. I need to bring pen to paper:

Write, clear my head, order my thoughts and come up with new ideas. *
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When I am doing this, everything becomes much clearer and I feel more connected with my own inner wisdom.
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For taking the next step, I use my second backup: These are the dolphins – my lucky source. *

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With them it is much more easy. They keep me on track.

Easy. Light. Fast. Fluent. *

My second backup:

It is me who take the other step. I love moving. That is why I always take action. I hate to stand still and do nothing. This is a gift and a curse at the same time, because I sometimes forget to take a break.*

You only have to do one next step. Don’t think of a huge jump.
Trust yourself.

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While arriving into deeper waters a see serpent, is waiting for me. It looks like a dragon. *
I often see dragons in my dreams. *
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They are my friends. Now and then I am a little bit nervous. I am not always sure how they will react. They are wild and strong creatures. Full of energy. *
From time to time they are very furious and angry, but they would never harm me. Even when they have this giant heads with huge and sharp teeth. *
And even when they come runnning to me with jaws wide open. Oh yes! This is really scary. I always close my eyes and wait what will happen next.
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Sometimes they just want to tell me, that I shouldn’t ignore them. That I shouldn’t hide. Shut out my feelings. Any feeling.
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Today a #poem found it’s way into my inbox, which inspired me, and made me think.
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It is from #Rilke:

„Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses
who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.“

This feels so true for me.
I also see the good in them, an not what rumors of religion has made of them in fairytales: The wild daemons, the beasts.
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For me they are multidimensional creatures. They never feel evil. They feel true, present and wise. They seldom talk and when they do they speak in short and clear sentences. Mostly they use just one. The dragons fill this sentence with a wealth of meaning, they don’t need to tell you more. *
I just hold on the #dragons spikes.
Swift flowing it brings me to the other side.
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My third backup:

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I love the feeling of water touching my skin, flouting fast around my face.
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Diving further through the large river, I finally reach the opposite shore. I know that I can’t go back. Only forward in time. *
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I already start miss the mermaids – my friends from the underwater world, who told me not to leave them.
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I feed the dragon, who brought me to the new side, with a huge portion of raw red meat and it disappears in the deep water.
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Dragons, it is said, are gate keepers to other worlds. *

They are guardians of knowledge and wisdom. They have the gift of vision.
I wonder why it brought me to the other shore with such a fast speed.
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Now my third back comes into place: When I am doing something new it is a good idea to jot down my plans, my ideas and the next steps.

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Sometimes I mark them with a date to get them really done.
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With my #diary and goals, I feel so much more prepared.

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But I also have to see the big picture in bird eyes view. This will be my next story to tell, when I detect the new land. *
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This poem is a very personal one and comes deep from my heart and soul.

I dedicated this poem to Martin, who is always the first who listens to my poems. This means a lot to me!

This time, we had a very long and poetic breakfast in a beautiful café in Mainz, which I enjoyed very much! The best: We played with language and words.